Simple Dimpled Green Skirt

Alright, maybe it has pleats, not dimples. I was just trying to rhyme.

When I got married, my bridesmaids got dresses from J. Crew, I ended up making one of the bridesmaid dresses, so J. Crew sent me a few yards of the fabric, a beautiful green cotton silk faille. I had some leftover, so decided to make a nice little Fall skirt with it.

Using a rectangle the size of my waist x 1.5, I made three inverted pleats on front:

Put two wider pleats on back, and closed the rectangle with a matching zipper:

**** Disclaimer: I am not fancy, nor do I know how to curl my hair. This is the result of wearing a sock bun for a couple days and then taking it out.

I put on a waistband, doubled over, the size of my waist. Side view:

Obligatory blurry action shot:

Thoughts? Feelings? Suggestions?

Scrappy the Fish

My BFF is having a bebe, so I wanted to make a stuffed animal. I used a bunch of scrap materials, and so that is why he is called Scrappy the Fish!

I sewed a bunch of varied size and texture strips of fabric and did two different color schemes-

Oranges, yellows and greens...

...and pinks, blues, and greys.

I made a big construction paper cut-out of a fish (you could do lots of other animals too), placed it over the sewed together scraps, and snip snip snip.

I added little smiley faces on each side of Scrappy, and some felt eyes.

Then, I sewed together the fish, right side together, leaving a gap in the tail so you can fill the fish up with stuffing.

Scrappy Guts

Last, I zig-zag stitched the tail closed.

Scrappy likes to look out the window.